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The Brave Princess and Me

Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

James Loeffler Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award

Jocie: Southern Jewish American Princess, Civil Rights Activist

Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg

Backfield Boys: A Football Mystery in Black and White

Lillian Wald: America’s Great Social and Healthcare Reformer

Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World (Jewish Lives)

Essay

Al Chet, or The Long Confession

Manny Waks

September 27, 2017

Connecting with the Enemy

Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South

Essay

How Does the “Justice System” Work for You?

Julia Dahl is the author of the Rebekah Roberts novels, the latest of which, Conviction, comes out this week. Julia is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week…

Julia Dahl

March 27, 2017

Essay

What My Nazi Great-Grandfather Taught Me About the Obligation to Act

Ursula Werner

March 6, 2017

Essay

How Jewish Was Ernestine Rose?

Bonnie S. Anderson

January 25, 2017

Essay

Agitate! Agitate! Ernestine Rose and the Age of Trump

Bonnie S. Anderson

January 23, 2017

Essay

My Sioux-kot, Part III

Emily Bowen Cohen’s mini-comic An American Indian Guide to the Day of Atonement recounts her reunion with her long-lost Native American family and her reflection on…

Emily Bowen Cohen

December 22, 2016

Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change

Essay

My Sioux-kot, Part II

Earlier this week, Emily Bowen Cohen introduced the conflict she felt between her American Indian and Jewish identities during the protests at Standing Rock, North…

Emily Bowen Cohen

December 21, 2016